Monday, June 14, 2010

State of Georgia Raises Costs of Appeals 567%!

Lawmakers unwittingly have handed Georgia's legal system a knee-buckling case of sticker shock -- a 567-percent increase in the cost of appeals that lawyers and judges say will shut the courthouse door to litigants statewide.

In their haste to raise revenues, lawmakers hiked the cost of copying and preparing a case record for an appeal from $1.50 per page to $10 per page. That means the cost of preparing an appeal with a massive 10,000-page record, for example, just spiked from $15,000 to $100,000. And the less-complicated appeals typically pursued by individuals or small businesses in civil cases now will cost more than $10,000.

Full Article and Source:
Court Fee Hike Staggers Justice System

7 comments:

  1. How can a group of legislators be so short-sighted?

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  2. We are becoming a Nazi state. Remember how much a loaf of bread was in Nazi Germany.

    The corrupt probate system will steal it all .........

    Guardianships are more lucrative for attorneys than doing real estate closings. They can run $25,000 at a time with guaranteed payment because of the rubber stamps of the court. It's better than buying a lottery ticket.

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  3. Short sighted? This is a master plan to make mega bucks, also it's a way to close off the appeals process to the majority of litigants who aleady spent mega bucks in litigation.

    Our country has gone to: HELL!

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  4. I'm sure it's got nothing to do with greed?!!!!

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  5. If lawyers and judges want to "shut the courthouse door to litigants statewide" perhaps their pay checks should be cut as well!

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